Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Ken Gagne, Paul Hagstrom, and Carrington Vanston

Host’s Topic: Second chances

If we had a time machine – What do you wish you’d done “back in the day” in the computing world, and is there a chance you can catch up and do it now in the retrocomputing hobby?

Retro Computing News:

• WDC 6502 and 65816-based development boards
• Amiga Turns 30:
  • ArsTechnica series
  • Guardian article
  • Jay Miner interview
• How “two bored 1970s housewives” helped create the PC industry
  • Vector Graphic Vector-1 computer
  • Vector-1 on eBay
• Retrochallenge 2015/07 ends
  • Tezza’s newly-mobile-friendly site
  • Earl’s Forth for Commodore 128
• Charles Babbage Institute
• PiDP-8/I kits
  • PiDP forum
• Apple IIgs bounty:
  • Apple IIgs System 6.0.2
  • GS/OS 6.0.2 hard disk image for Floppy Emu
  • Space Ace for the Apple IIgs
  • BurgerLib
  • KitchenSink
• Leadlight Gamma released for Mac/PC
• Sleepaway camp for Apple II fanatics, Motherboard Radio (Jason Koebler)
• History of Icons

Vintage Computer Commercial:

• Remington Rand UNIVAC

Retro Computing Gift Idea:

• Green Computer Power Button Keychain

Auction Picks:

• Carrington: The Apple Boogie
  • Story on Apple Boogie on The Next Web
  • Download the songs
  • Blue Busters video
• Carrington: Outbound Laptop
• Paul: Radio Shack Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer
  • Science Fair Microcomputer with more beat up box
• Earl: Bell Teletype Model 26
  • Wikipedia says it’s from 1946

Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
Show audio files hosted by CyberEars

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Filed under: Podcasts - @ August 2, 2015 8:00 pm